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Beyond the Wind Chimes
A Collection of Short Stories and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
I can sit for hours over a cup of tea and talk to Phyllis about almost any topic. She is such a great storyteller, and there is always a lesson to be learned. Phylliss new book is so much like her personality, full of mirth, a history lesson, nurturing words, and a brief glimpse into a remarkable...
Spearing the Wild Blue Boar
Shakespeare Vs. Oxford: the Authorship Question
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Is William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon the true author of the poems and plays attributed to him? This book once and for all silences those critics who say he isn't. It takes particular aim at those who champion Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, whose crest was a wild blue boar. Who are...
Wilbur's Story
Adventures of a Feisty Feline
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2008
Wilbur is just ten weeks old when his new owner brings him home from the local animal shelter. Life is different in the suburbs for this little orange tiger-striped kitten. With his narrow chin, flat head, and pointy ears, he looks and feels a bit devilish. And he doesn't appreciate being named after...
The Unofficial Guide to Achieving Your Goals
Seven Steps to Creating Your Road Map to Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Picking the right goals can generate more passion in your life, but you need to take the right steps to ensure you achieve them. Author Onyx Jones, formerly a homeless single mother and now a successful entrepreneur, shares seven easy steps to set goals and make them a reality. Using this workbook,...
by Xavier Grice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The book is called Simple Thoughts. It is just a collection of thoughts and ideas of an average male living in todays society. These are just my opinions and or observations of things I see that affect me and millions of other people. Open and enjoy the book and maybe something will get you the look at things in a different perspective.
The Education of a Teacher
Including Dirty Books and Pointed Looks
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
In 1968, at age twenty-one, I was sure I had all the answers I needed to know about teaching five classes a day in a real high school I had no idea how nave I was! Every teachers career is a journey of discovery that begins with rookie insecurities and moves toward self-confidence and understanding....
The Dark Before Dawn
From Civil Wrongs to Civil Light
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
As an African American child growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, author Gerald Eubanks had a hard time seeing the victories won during the Civil War in action. Blacks were excluded from opportunities afforded to his white neighbors. Schools were aggressively segregated. Racial tensions simmered....
Rhodes and the Holocaust
The Story of the Jewish Community from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Rhodes and the Holocaust is the story of La Juderia, the Jewish community that once lived and flourished on Rhodes Island, the largest of the twelve Dodecanese islands in the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Turkey. While the focus of the accounts of the Holocaust has for the most part been on...
My Adventures in Bangkok
The Story of John, John, John
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The story begins when Nelson stars in the YouTube video BKK 1st Time (Bangkok First Time), produced by his friend Benz, a Thai videographer. The script is about cursing, common in Thailand. Nelson follows the script, and to his amazement, the show goes viral, with over four million hits! Seventy-seven-year-old...
Fort Apache
New York’S Most Violent Precinct
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
OVER THIRTY YEARS AFTER its publication, Fort Apache: New Yorks Most Violent Precinct remains the definitive account of the vicious cycle of violence that has griped urban America over the past century.
A swollen head floating down the Bronx River, a junkie murdered for stealing a womans wig,...
Cultural Genocide and the Italian-American Legacy
A Culture Hijacked by Popular Myth and Media Misrepresentation
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Do you know the name of the Italian-American that the U.S. government now recognizes as the true inventor of the telephone? Do you know the name of the Tuscan colonist who Thomas Jefferson paraphrased in his famous all men are created equal clause in the Declaration of Independence? Did you know that...
by Jerome Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
John Cook grew up in the late nineteenth century on the family farm in the American Midwest. The older he got, the more stories he heard about the world outside his family home. The more he heard, the more he realized he didnt want to spend his life in one place, working the same old soil his family...
by Isabelle McCall MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
This work evolved out of a love for my ancestors, one being John Whitelaw, the Covenanter Monkland Martyr, who was executed for his religious beliefs in Edinburgh, 1683. While searching for his records I came across reference to thousands of other Scottish Covenanters. This Index lists those Covenanters...
by Peggy Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Contemporary tanka are delicately linked with striking black-and-white images in this innovative memoir. A stunning collaboration by an award-winning pair.
Whimsical, humorous, poignant, and wise, the poems in Forward Moving Shadows span the full range of tanka expression. I admire the honesty...